Remake, Remodel

Youku is nurturing a big ambition to localize the world's most popular television genres for online viewing. Wang Kaihao reports.

Perhaps, like American TV audiences over the past decades, Chinese netizens will be laughing aloud on Saturday nights.

After all, Saturday Night Live China, a Chinese adaptation of the long-running sketch comedy and variety show from NBC, is to be released in 2018 via Youku, one of China's major online video streaming platforms based in Beijing.